I might have agreed with statements like that before covid.I live in the US. With more than 50% of the world's firearms and more ammunition than there are living people on this planet, I bet the problem would get sorted before I ever saw a single zombie (unless the pandemic started exactly where I am).
Most zombies have ways around this, or all the zombie movies would end in 28 days-Wait.
Seriously, think about it. Zombies are rotting animated corpses, they can only last so long before they quite literally fall apart. Give them maybe a month or two max before they are incapable of movement.
Gun owners can't shoot someone infected with covid; they could, however, shoot a zombie. A good point often not mentioned is that our giant nation had an increase in Covid (and measles) due to our unsecured borders that allowed sick people in (as opposed to countries like Italy that successfully sent everyone away). In a hypothetical zombies in the US scenario, our neighbors would have that problem; with an unsecured border, the zombies could travel to Canada and Mexico and unfortunately harass them unless they finally decided to do their part.I might have agreed with statements like that before covid.